A blog of my North American Expedition.
When the Canadian Transcontinental Railroad first traversed the Canadian Rockies in 1883, the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway named the area Banff after his birthplace of Banffshire, Scotland. The Banff Springs Hotel quickly became...
Lincoln Home National Historic Site Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught lawyer with only one year of frontier schooling when he rode his horse into Springfield, Illinois in 1837. Lincoln was already serving in the...
Long before European settlers arrived in St. Louis, Mississippian people lived here and built large earthen mounds between 1050-1200 AD. Most of the mounds were platforms for homes and ceremonial sites, while others were...
It’s May and that means only one thing…it is time for the Indianapolis 500. Since 1911, the 500-mile race has been held the Sunday before Memorial Day. This year will mark the fourth time...
Beneath the sandstone and shale ridges of central Kentucky lies the largest cave system on Earth. Presently, there are 426 miles of surveyed passageways in Mammoth Cave which makes it over twice as long...
U.S. Space & Rocket Center – Huntsville, Alabama In the dying days of World War II in Europe, some of Germany’s leading rocket scientists who had worked on wartime projects for the Nazis were...
Established in 2020, New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia is one of the newest national parks. New River Gorge National Park conserves over 70,000 acres of land along the New River between the towns...
Jamestown Settlement Founded in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New World. The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, a group of investors who hoped to profit...
Savannah, Georgia In February 1733, General James Oglethorpe and a party of 120 British subjects landed on a bluff overlooking the Savannah River. They came to the new world with a charter from England’s...
St. Augustine Founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles, St. Augustine has the distinction of being the oldest city in the United States. This historic city on the northeast coast of...
